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Oh, I’m sorry if you thought that I was saying you were being repetitive. If I was that’d be stupid, because bookblogging surely means many people share their thoughts on the same books or events. I didn’t mean to imply that at all!

None of them, which is odd really because I’m often in the bookshop and a big deal is made of new releases. The cover of the third is most appealing to me, so while I won’t look at all three I will that one.

Jessica, There were no reviews on Amazon UK when I went to look this morning (although one appeared a bit later) There isn’t a copy in my library. – I’m sure there will be lots of reviews in the coming weeks though!

Claire, I still hope to read Lark and Termite at some point too. It is good that the Pulitzer website was at least creating a little buzz around it – I look forward to reading Tinkers at some point in the future too.

I was flabbergasted at these results. How idiotic do I feel that I have never heard of any of them? It seems that I am not the only one though. Good grief. Well, on the bright side, we get introduced to new stuff, right?

Never even heard of these books, but then I am interested in a different genre, so it’s no wonder! Happy reading to you and I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on these books, should you decide to share them with us.

Question: How do the candidates for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-Shortlist (and longlist- as I assume there is one) get publicised and marketed to the book reading public? Perhaps the answer to that question would speak to our lack if knowledge of the candidates!
Just a thought as I haven’t heard a word about these lists.

The book is published by Bellevue Literary press (yes it is outfitted in the old mental institution in New York) a really small company. So maybe they are not able to advertise as well as the big companies (especially to other countries) but I think it is great that the small presses are putting out books that are getting recognized. Love in Infant Monkeys is also published by a small company. Good for them!

I’ve never heard of these before. Although the one by Millet looks really interesting. I never seem to get around to the prize winners because my TBR list is already so long… A book on your list of just completed novels, though, looks fun: Nights at the Circus. I’ll be sure to come back for the review!

I haven’t read any of the books that won, but being from Seattle, I can verify that the reporting of the police officers shooting by The Seattle Times was truly wonderful. It was up to date and readily available. This was a tragic occurrence in the Seattle area (basically, a guy on parole went into a coffee shop and shot four on-duty police officers for no apparent reason). There was subsequently a manhunt and they did a great job getting accurate news out fast.

When the Booker prize longlist was announced I did a post about how I don’t seem to be reading those books that seem to be award-winning material. I feel somewhat better now, because at least I had heard of some of those books! I hadn’t heard of any of these!

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